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Book/Printed MaterialDictionnaire encyclopédique des amusemens des sciences mathématiques et physiques : des procédés curieux des arts, des tours récréatifs & subtils de la magie blanche, & des découvertes ingénieuses & variées de l'industrie
Title from atlas: Recueil des planches du Dictionnaire encyclopédique des amusemens des sciences mathématiques et physiques The folded plates in the text v. are tables. Signatures: pi1 2pi² A-5R⁴ (last leaf blank). The plates in the atlas are signed: Benard direxit. Two plates in the atlas are double. LC copy of the atlas imperfect: wanting t.p. Text v. wanting final blank. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Copy 3 Atlas formerly shelved at Q164.B4…- Contributor: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Bénard, Robert - Lacombe, Jacques
- Date: 1792
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PeriodicalMercure de France Unknown Serial. Vols. for 1672-1676, 1678-avril 1714 have title: Mercure galant. Founded by Jean Donneau de Vizé. No issues during 1675 and 1676. Title varies: Jan. 1672-1673, Le Mercure galant ... Imprint varies. Pieces fugitives en vers et en prose. Jan.-Mars, Avr. (1.-2. pte.) Mai-Juin, Juil. (1.-2. pte) Sept., Oct. (1 pte.)? Aug., Oct. (2. pte.) 1777 1 v. "Pieces fugitives ..." form 1st…- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1760
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PeriodicalThe Gentleman's magazine LC has 63 vols. (found in survey). Missing vols. include: 1, 33, 34. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record LAC tnb 2021-03-02 no edits (3 cards) LAC ael 2021-02-11 no edits (2 cards) LAC ael 2021-08-26 update (1 card)- Contributor: Jacob Bailey Moore Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Knight, Joseph - Nichols, John Gough - Nichols, John - Cave, Edward - Sylvanus Urban (Pseud.) - Hatton, Joseph - Parker, John Henry - Henry, David - Mitford, John - Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Nichols, J. B. (John Bowyer)
- Date: 1731
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PeriodicalThe South-Carolina and Georgia almanack, for the year of Our Lord Annual Issued in another printing by Clay & Habersham. LC copy bound, stamped in red leather and gilt, with armorial bookplate of W.J. De Renne, with his autograph presentation to Library of Congress, Oct. 6, 1907. Drake, M. Almanacs 17 cm. Description based on: 1764; title from cover.- Contributor: Tobler, John - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 17??
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PeriodicalBenjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord Began with v. for 1792. SERBIB/SERLOC merged record Drake, M. Almanacs 2226 et al. Description based on: 1793; title from cover.- Contributor: Banneker, Benjamin - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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PeriodicalAn astronomical diary, or, An almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ
Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ Annual 1750- Title from cover. Title history: Astronomical diary, or, an Almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ ..., 1750- ; Almanack for the year of our Lord Christ ..., <1761-> None published in 1759? Issue for 1760 includes account of the Capture of Quebec by the British forces under Gen. Wolfe. Vols. for <1761-> printed by D. and J. Kneeland for D.…- Contributor: Sherman, Roger - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1750
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PeriodicalAlmanack, for the year of Christian account ... fitted to serve the Province of New-York
Hutchins | Hutchins's almanack, or, ephemeris, for the year of Christian account | Hutchin's improved | Ming's Hutchins' improved, 1753- LC does not have original copy of 1753 issue; instead it has 2 numbered copies of a reprint, printed in 81 copies, "Printed privately" in 1913, for Chas. Fred Heartman, and signed by him. Batchelder Collection: 1790. Carson Collection: 1790, 1798. Some vols. issued in several printings or editions, by other publishers. Printed and sold by Ming and Young, 1801-1806; by: Alexander Ming,…- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - Hutchins, John Nathan - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1753
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PeriodicalPoor Richard : an almanack, for the year of Christ
Poor Richard's almanacks | Poor Richard improved | Poor Richard's almanac Annual Some issues in several printings. Printer varies after 1792. Title history: Poor Richard, <1733-1740>; Poor Richard improved, <1748-1813>; Poor Richard's almanac, <1867-> American Almanac Collection: 1733, 1740-1867 (some issues wanting); another set (1740-1792)--in a leather pull-off case, with case title: Poor Richard's almanacks; each issue bound in leather by W. Pratt for Henry Stevens of Vermont, with his bookplate. Carson Collection: 1771. Drake,…- Contributor: Franklin, Benjamin - Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan) - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) - Stevens, Henry - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) - Pratt, W. - Force, Peter
- Date: 17??
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PeriodicalThe South-Carolina almanack, for the year of Our Lord
Issues for <1765-1786> have title: South-Carolina & Georgia almanack, for the year of Our Lord | South-Carolina and Georgia almanack, for the year of Our Lord | Issues for <1790-1792> have title: South-Carolina and Georgia almanac, for the year of Our Lord Annual Began with v. for 1749? Other slight variations in title. Printer varies. Issue for 1760 severely damaged and without t.p. Drake, M. Almanacs 13071 et al. Description based on: 1759; title from cover. Latest issue consulted: 1792.- Contributor: Tobler, John - American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1749
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PeriodicalThe annual register, or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year
Annual register | View of the history, politics, and literature for the year | Index vols. also called: Dodsley's annual register Catalog Record Only Annual 1758-1837. Originated with Robert Dodsley, at the suggestion of Edmund Burke, who was for some years editor and principal contributor. Some time after 1791, the copyright and stock were purchased by Otridge and other booksellers. Messrs. Rivington published a rival continuation, which lasted from 1791 to 1812, and again from 1820 to 1824, when the two united to form one publication. Cf. Lowndes.…- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Burke, Edmund - Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1758
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PeriodicalThe Merchants news-letter
Merchants newsletter Weekly Began in 1703? Title from caption. Also issued in digital form on the Library of Congress web site. PREMARC/SERLOC merged record serpull 985 removed per C. Arms LAC brd 2019-02-04 update (1 card)- Date: 170?
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscours sur l'affaire de Louis XVI Title from caption. "Imprimé par ordre de la Convention." At head of title: Convention nationale. Date of publication from BN. Signatures: A⁴. "Législation. (No. 57.)." BN LXXV, column 562 LAC brd 2019-03-12 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - France. Convention Nationale - Ichon, Pierre-Louis
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialAlmanach historique de la révolution françoise pour l'année 1792 Signatures: pi² [a]⁶ b-f⁶ g² 1-21⁶ 22⁴, 1-9⁶. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1707 Thacher, II, p. 79 (French Revolution) "Précis de l'histoire de la révolution françoise": p. [1]-257. Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LC copy's engravings are proofs before letters. LC copy has ink stamp and bookplate of Lord Rosebery, Durdans. LAC brd…- Contributor: Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - France - Rabaut, Jean-Paul - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Moreau, Jean Michel
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialA discourse intended to commemorate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus : delivered at the request of the historical society in Massachusetts on the 23d day of October, 1792, being the … Signatures: [A]⁴ B-R⁴. Evans 24085 BAL 931 Publisher's advertisements: p. [1-2] at end. LC copy has embossed stamp and release label of the Public Library of Boston, signed C.C. Jewett. Kislak accession no.: 1987.010.00.001. LAC tnb 2021-02-09 no edits (3 cards) LAC tnb 2021-01-28 no edits (3 cards) LAC snh 2019-04-17 no edits (3 card) LAC rwp 2019-04-26 review LAC ael 2021-02-11 no edits…- Contributor: Jacob Bailey Moore Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - John Bailey Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Belknap, Jeremy - Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Israel Thorndike Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialNew travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. "This volume comprises M. de Warville's two first volumes. His third, on the commerce of America, has been before published in English." - Note, 4th prelim. leaf. Translated by Joel Barlow. ESTC T107218 Also available in digital form from the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialAt a meeting of the inhabitants of Charleston, on May 7th, a committee was appointed to prepare a plan for the establishment of a fund to purchase or take up specialties or … Dated at end: June 11, 1792; imprint from Evans. Watermark: J. Honig and Zoonen. Evans 24186 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Dec. 1937-June 1938. Formerly part of the James Madison Papers, vol. 79, p. 8.- Contributor: Markland and M'iver - Redemption Bank (Charleston, S.C.) - James Madison Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialCircular Dated: Philadelphia, April 14th, 1792. Text begins: Sir, in conformity to an appointment and instructions from the offices of the Massachusetts line of the late American army ... Space left for signature at end. Watermark: S.L. Evans 24414 English short title catalog, W1157 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Dec. 1937-June 1938. Formerly part of the James Madison Papers, vol. 79A, p.…- Contributor: Hull, William - James Madison Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialCopy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer Letter to Thomas Jefferson, transmitting a copy of the writer's almanac and discussing the subject of slavery. Signatures: [A]² B-D². Evans 24073 Jefferson's reply, dated August 30, 1791: p. 11-12. Account of the life of Banneker: p. 13-15. LAC brd 2019-04-19 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Banneker, Benjamin - American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialDescripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790. … The astronomer Antonio León y Gama is sometimes considered the first Mexican archaeologist. His description of the discovery of the "two stones" -- the Coatlicue and Sun Stone (a massive sacrificial stone and calendar) -- emphasized the sophistication and high scientific and artistic achievements of the Aztecs in a way that both responded to and further quickened the stirring of Mexican nationalism in the…- Contributor: León Y Gama, Antonio De - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialThe true state of the case, respecting the insurrection at St. Domingo. Signed at end: T. Clarkson. Sabin 13499 ESTC N14171 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC snh 2019-06-13 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-06-25 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2019-07-03- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Clarkson, Thomas
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialAn inquiry into the causes of the insurrection of the negroes in the island of St. Domingo. To which are added, Observations of M. Garran-Coulon on the same subject, read in his … Appendix: "Decree respecting the colonies" passed by the National assembly, March 24th, 1792. ESTC T11240 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. 991 below for AC901.M5 v. 59 no. 10 Copy 2 is erroneous; v. 59 has only 6 titles, none of which are this one. There is an apparent typo in numbering or there is no other copy…- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Garran De Coulon, Jean-Philippe - France. Assemblée Nationale Législative - Guadet, Marguerite-Élie - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialTravels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws : containing an … Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Signatures: a⁴ b⁸ B-L⁸ M². Includes index. ESTC (RLIN) T88527 Sabin 3870 Kislak accession no.: 2000.112.00.0001 LAC tnb 2019-06-04 no edits (1 card)
- Contributor: Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Bartram, William
- Date: 1792
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PeriodicalCollections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
MHS collections | M.H.S. collections Catalog Record Only Irregular Began in 1792. Batchelder Collection: 1798. Vols. 1-70 comprise the 1st-7th series, with 10 vols. in each series; beginning with v. 71, series numbering is discontinued. Second series, v. 5-6 paged continuously. Last volume of each series contains general table of contents and index for the series. Description based on: 1798. Latest issue consulted: Vol. 88, published in 1992. SERBIB/SERLOC merged record Wilson…- Contributor: Massachusetts Historical Society - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialA vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects At end of book: End of first volume. LC copy annotated. ESTC W2450 Evans 25054 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Inscribed in unknown hand: Samuel Porter 2d, July 28th 1804. Inscribed by Anthony: Presented to Susan B. Anthony by Maria G. Porter, Rochester N.Y. August 1881. This was published in 1792. Further Inscribed: Presented to the Library…- Contributor: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Date: 1792
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Book/Printed MaterialA sketch of the debates in both Houses of the Parliament of Ireland, on the Roman Catholic Bill passed in the session of 1792 : containing the sentiments of the most able … Signatures: pi1 B-E⁴. LAC tnb 2021-01-28 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: William Duane Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ireland. Parliament
- Date: 1792
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